https://jimwork.com/2016/01/12/shades-of-gray-from-grayson-co-tx-924- You can’t always get what you want!

Ah yes, some days just don’t go quite like you planned. One day your running free in the jungle and then you felt a little stick and you wake up behind bars with dry hay to eat instead of the fresh garden in which you ran free.

I just got released from the hold of a hospital bed. I felt it was just another of my familliar panic attacks, but my BP went to 247/143 with a pulse rate of 133. I took my regular meds, but just could not get it down and the need to breathe was getting harder and harder. So, we call 911 and it is off to the hospital. A bunch of nice people ( the EMT’s and hospital nurse’s were just incredible), but I would have much met them all someplace for a beer.

The cardiologist was firmly convinced I had experienced a heart attack and must have some blockage in my heart. So, pokes, prods, needles, ekgs, cardiograms of several types and the worst a chemical stress test. So strange to be injected with a drug and see and feel your heart race to 150 beats per minute in less than 60 seconds. Kind of felt like a panic attack.

And in the end, after all the tests it was what I originally thought, a panic attack.

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> James Work Photography posted: ” Ah yes, some days just don’t go quite > like you planned. One day your running free in the jungle and then you felt > a little stick and you wake up behind bars with dry hay to eat instead of > the fresh garden in which you ran free. I just got released from t” >

Ally……hey I was a trying. These are not real new to me, not my first rodeo, just freaky. It took them 24 hours in the hospital to get it under 185. They were amazed that they pumped all this juice in me and it just stayed up. All the test said the heart is good & strong, no blockages, so like you said, breathe on….lov ya & miss ya…..jim

Wow. Just thinking today how you haven’t posted in awhile. Sorry for your experience but just glad everything turned out okay. We’ve been going through the phase of retiring and getting all that stuff together to Joe getting ready for his usual plant season. I’ll tell you what, though, play time is awaiting, although we did just get to do that down in Marathon/Terlingua. Still, more time with old friends is so important. Here’s to that happening soon.